20th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989193Author Nivedita MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785274596Author Tim ConleyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785273476Author Rachael AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279720Author Joseph CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785270918Author Joseph CumminsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

What you will find in Echoes of Growing up Italian are accounts of the immigrant experience as told through the eyes of women. The Italian diaspora is one of the most significant of the 20th century, with a far-reaching impact in the Americas, Australia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785277955Author Nathalie CamerlynckFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666944068Author Ethan MannonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Explores seven startling paradoxes behind the bestselling novelist's lasting popularity Agatha Christie stands as the bestselling novelist of all time and, in terms of total sales in all genres, places only behind the Christian Bible and Shakespeare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531501600Author Jonathan GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 127g

Major changes in media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries challenged traditional ideas about artistic representation and opened new avenues for authors working in the modernist period. Modernist authors' reactions to this changing media landscape...

Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by...

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu's work within the 1980s post-"novisimo" movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible...

Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes Covers a range of the relationships between landscape, literature, and culture Explores the lived relationship between form, content, and consciousness...

Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age-and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448121Author Matthew KilbaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press

A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry. What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349205639Author Lance S. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349186976Author Christopher HeywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349182237Author Oddvar HolmeslandFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349174515Author Anne WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were...

While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by...

One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career,...

Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions.Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years brings to life Stein’s surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of...

Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction...

This study examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' art, from the critical realism of his early novels to his highly experimental novels of the late sixties, and to his novels from the eighties where national identities are playfully evoked and largely...

Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just...

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension-a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors...

Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce’s masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers?Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us...

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized...

Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure,...

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized...

Since the publication of his first novel in 1972, Alexander Theroux has won great acclaim for his dazzling style and forceful intellect. That first novel, Three Wogs, was named Book of the Year by Encyclopedia Britannica and nominated for the National...

The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known novels. They draw on Fitzgerald's own vivid experiences in the 1920s but transform them into art. This stimulating introductory guide analyses their accomplished style and...

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical...

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance and, as such, deserves its place of interest in dramaturgical studies for its historical significance. It offers a detailed literary...

“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and...